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By Morgan West Cyprus spends almost two billion hours online each year! Every 12 months, the average resident logs 1,460 hours on the net. Some more, some less. Very few of the ...

We talked to delivery drivers on the streets of Nicosia, asking about the difficulties and challenges of the job.

Heroic vineyards are located on small islands or in areas subject to hydrogeological instability or whose conditions make mechanisation at least almost impossible. In all cases, these are extremely difficult ...

In the Americas, most people prefer autumn. According to CBS, 45 per cent of the country favours ‘fall’ over any other season. In Australia, summer is the most-loved time of the ...

Twenty five children from across the divide and aged between 5 and 12 currently meet to sing in the buffer zone in Nicosia once a week. Known as Songbird, the Intercommunal Children’...

An embroidery-themed workshop and a guided tour in Lefkara awaits the last Saturday of March, organised by the Centre for Social Innovation. On March 29, a team of participants will head ...

Where do you live?I live in Nicosia with my husband and twins. What did you have for breakfast?A sandwich with zea bread, fig jam and brie. Describe your ...

In a sea of streaming options, Cassandra rises above the noise. This German-language thriller on Netflix is an atmospheric blend of sci-fi, horror and family drama that will keep you ...

“Do I belong here? Is a writer, part-time photographer and cyanotype maker just as much an artist as a ceramicist or a printmaker is? These thoughts crept up on me ...

A miscommunication between friends meant that we had ended up at a restaurant with no reservation and they had no space to squeeze us in. Being all dressed up with ...

Cyprus is running out of people. This, says our government, is a crisis. It’s a threat to our economy, our pensions, our future. Something must be done! And so, ...

How often has this happened to you? You turn on Netflix, hoping for something to watch to pass the time, and you are instantly flooded with suggestions and content you ...

Antonis Koupparis shows me videos on his phone. The clips are mostly CCTV footage, plus videos he shot himself: a low-res litany of crime and disorder in the walled city ...

Where do you live?I live in Nicosia with two dogs, Telios and Lily, and two cats, Tryfonas and Maggie. What did you have for breakfast?Banana and almonds. Describe ...

Described as heartbreaking, unsettling and inspired, Netflix’s new limited series Toxic Town is based on a true story of a clutch of children born in England with physical deformities, ...

We decided to visit a restaurant that has been a fixture in Nicosia’s dining scene since at least the 90s that is widely regarded as a pillar of Levantine ...

In the years leading up to 1974, Eleni Papademetriou travelled the island. A renowned ethnographer, philologist and photographer, she documented a way of life that has since been reshaped beyond recognition ...

With March 1 set as International Yiannoudi Day, the indigenous Cyprus grape is celebrated by oenophiles across the island in an initiative spearheaded by president of the Cyprus Friends of Wine ...

By Philippa Tracy Are cinema-going audiences in terminal decline? There has been lots of evidence to suggest that they are. However, I am happy to report that last weekend I ...

“Last summer our office air conditioning broke! “It was the middle of the worst heatwave; the repairmen were slammed and couldn’t get there for a week. So my boss ...

Where do you live?Limassol What did you have for breakfast?Cereal Describe your perfect dayCreative writing, a walk with my dog, listening to classical music and jazz, watching a ...

Björn works for an unappreciative law firm and his clients are equally ungrateful mafia bosses. As his family life goes down the drain, he can either wave it goodbye ...

On a ridiculously cold, wet, and wintery night in Paphos, it was hard to summon any enthusiasm to leave the warmth of home and go out to eat. However, the ...

Special education teacher by day, football referee by weekends and afternoons. This dual profession is not groundbreaking, but in Cyprus if you are a woman on the football field it ...